The Preface.
the ſame Book: But whether I have concurred in any thing with him, or contradicted him, I am not able to ſay; having wanted leiſure to peruſe his Work, by reaſon of the Publick Buſineſs, which came upon me in the end of the Year when I likewiſe underſtood that a very Learned Friend and Brother had put into the Preſs, Annotations upon all the Five Books of Moſes. But by communicating ſome of our Papers to each other, we found there would be no reaſon, that either of us ſhould lay aſide our Deſign; but go on, in our ſeveral ways, to make the Scriptures better underſtood, by all ſorts of Perſons: For all helps are little enough in this Age, which ſeems to take pleaſure in being ignorant of the moſt important Truths.
In which we are ſo particularly inſtructed by Moſes, as by no other Author, not by all the Authors that are, or have known to be, extant in the World. For to him we owe the Knowledge of the beginning of the World; of the firſt Parents of Mankind; the Inventers of Arts; the Original of Nations; the Founders of Kingdoms and Empires; the Inſtitution of Laws; the Fountain of Religious Rites; Yea, of all the ancient Mythology; and, which is moſt conſiderable, the
